CSE graduate enrichment seminar
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             Awk: The Duct Tape of Computer Science Research

                           by Tim Sherwood (CSE)
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                        brought to you in part by
                   Graduate Student Association at UCSD


                              AP&M room 4301
                      Thursday May 30th at NOON

                 -----> FREE PIZZA (for early birds) <------

Doing computer science research many times means dealing with large
amounts of data, many different file formats, and a variety of different
tools not all intended to play nicely with each other.  Awk, when used in
conjunction with some basic shell commands, can help everything work
together by providing a set of powerful yet easy to use tools for file
parsing and manipulation.  Awk, like duct tape, may not always lead to the
prettiest or most structured designs, but can allow you get preliminary
implementations and one time fixes done quickly and easily with a minimum
of hassle so you can get on with doing your research.  This talk will help
you -

 * understand the basics of Awk

 * use Awk to muck with your data

 * use Awk to convert between text file formats

 * use Awk to generate reports / TeX tables / and graph ready data